And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
Set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked ... in the flock of Laban. This was the same stratagem continued by different means. Formerly he had made use of peeled rods of diverse colours; but now that ringstraked and black (brown) sheep had made appearance in Laban's flock, he set the faces of his white she-goats and ewes toward them, and the anticipated result followed.